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Sometimes, less is more. Less clutter, more shutter.

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2026-03-13 18:41:06 UTC

Have a great weekend, Fediverse! 👋
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2026-02-20 14:25:58 UTC

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I also gave up Windows in mid-2025. The only things that were really keeping me there were gaming and Lightroom. With Lightroom, I ended up abandoning all my edits and albums and switched to Darktable. I exported my edits from Lightroom as JPGs, so at least I still have a record of the direction I was going with them. The way I approach editing changes all the time anyway, depending on mood and experience. So I don’t miss the edits as much as I feared I would. Good luck with your migration. 🙂

2026-02-15 11:15:53 UTC

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2026-02-08 19:08:50 UTC

'Negative space' #FotoVorschlag
I wasn’t explicitly looking for negative space this afternoon. But when I saw this empty scene, I immediately thought it was missing just one detail: a person. So I waited ten minutes until a walker finally wandered into the frame, and voilà: 1% subject and 99% negative space.
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2026-02-08 06:35:14 UTC

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2026-02-07 16:05:03 UTC

Today my wife and I took the bus into town for breakfast, then we walked the 15 km back home. Normally I don’t bring my camera when I’m out with other people. Today I made an exception - and somehow tried to balance being present with my partner and allowing myself a small creative detour. I should probably ask my wife how well that actually worked. 😄
I also had to work fast while composing, because I didn’t want to keep her waiting. If I’d been on my own, I’m sure I would’ve taken at least twice as long. Honestly, after about two hours of looking for motifs I’m usually mentally exhausted and have to stop shooting. Do you get that too?
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2026-01-31 19:36:19 UTC

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2026-01-28 17:56:38 UTC

Last week I had the unusual pleasure of seeing an aurora borealis myself. One that even reached beyond 50°N. Just before going to bed I stood at the window for minutes, trying to figure out whether I was looking at drifting clouds or already an aurora. Then it started. And it was obvious. More obvious than I’ve ever seen it here. Jacket and beanie on, and out I went. It was wonderful, ridiculously strong. I only shot a few phone photos, mostly as evidence so people would actually believe me. That was enough of an excuse to buy a tripod, which is now waiting for its first proper outing. 😄
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2026-01-26 15:29:27 UTC

This is what black and white looks like. Everything else is just grey with good intentions.
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2026-01-24 18:04:19 UTC

May I introduce: the Sun.
A yellow dwarf, yet still about 1.4 million kilometres across. The Sun is a large star, just not one of the largest; next to the real giants it would be a tiny grain of sand. The fun part is this: roughly three quarters of all stars are red dwarfs, and you can’t see a single one of them with the naked eye in the night sky. About 50 of the 60 nearest stars are red dwarfs - and invisible. Now imagine the already impressive sky if the red dwarfs were visible too.
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2026-01-13 19:02:15 UTC

I probably overdid it again. But I just like grain. It’s odd - you deliberately remove detail and make the image softer. Yet with grain, I want to hold the picture, I want to feel the surface and run my fingers over it. With smooth, razor-sharp pictures I don’t get that impulse - they feel more distant, less approachable.
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2025-12-28 11:45:39 UTC

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2025-12-26 10:55:23 UTC

Happy #FensterFreitag, Fediverse! 👋
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2025-12-18 19:06:48 UTC

I seem to be stuck in a creative rut. I haven’t taken a single photo with my camera this month, and I rarely even open the editor anymore to dig for old treasures or new editing ideas. Even though I see so many inspiring images here in the Fediverse, nothing manages to pull me out of this current photographic lethargy. Nothing feels motivating. But now the time is coming when there is enough room for action. And as the saying goes: motivation follows action, not the other way around. So - out you go, lazy dog.
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2025-12-14 06:49:21 UTC

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2025-12-07 11:56:48 UTC

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2025-12-04 19:18:16 UTC

There was a phase when I kept placing my wife in front of beautiful scenes - not to make a lovely portrait for the family album, but simply to give the landscape some scale. This photo is from that era. I’d copied the idea from photographers who put a tiny person in a grand, dramatic backdrop. Fantastic images, of course… and yet, gloriously cliché. Whenever I see one, I roll my eyes - and admire it anyway.
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2025-11-23 06:51:00 UTC

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2025-11-21 15:24:20 UTC

Happy #FensterFreitag, Fediverse! 👋
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2025-11-18 16:18:05 UTC

Can there ever be enough photos of trees?
No. And definitely not enough of the small, crooked, jagged, lived-in ones - the unimpressive, imperfect, quietly interesting trees.
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2025-11-17 14:04:14 UTC

The bird was remarkably patient. It let me take well over a hundred photos in about five minutes until I finally caught the right wave behind it. My thanks to the bird.
Probably a White-faced Heron, but I’m not entirely sure.
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2025-11-16 08:13:55 UTC

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2025-11-15 08:47:00 UTC

I cropped in quite far, roughly two thirds of the frame are gone. There was a puddle reflecting the metal structure, but not the cyclist. For that, I would probably have had to put the camera into the mud. The image didn’t convince me at first. Then I tightened the frame, removed the puddle, and now it feels good enough to show. It’s almost a rule: keep removing things until only the essential remains. Though of course, that can go too far… it’s all about balance.
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2025-11-13 13:41:37 UTC

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Well, there it is. The story finally appeared. 😄

2025-11-13 12:19:04 UTC

A horse and a mirror. No connection, no message, no story. At least I can’t see one - and I was there. 🙃 The mirror simply looked good, and the horse showed up at the right moment. If there’s a story, the horse didn’t tell me.
Not every image needs a plot. Looking can be its own reason. Stories tend to show up later.
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2025-11-11 12:26:21 UTC

Peekaboo!
And now for something completely different.
I wanted to show you the original photo - to give an idea of how it might have looked in reality. The color version comes straight from the RAW-to-JPEG conversion, untouched.
But of course, the software already makes many decisions on its own. Just like the camera does when it creates its own JPEG. Somewhere, someone - a programmer, an engineer - decides how raw data should become a visible image. If I do nothing, this is the result. Another program, or the camera itself, would have produced something else.
There simply is no true image, no perfect copy of reality. Only memory can hint at how it felt. So I prefer to take over myself. And since I’m already at it, I might as well create my own reality.
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2025-11-08 19:45:21 UTC

It’s a joy to go out hunting for subjects in the fog. Everything feels new and unfamiliar. With almost every step, new things appear while others fade into the mist.
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2025-11-08 13:08:42 UTC

Fog - nature’s built-in minimalism filter.
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2025-11-05 18:06:40 UTC

Time, position, and luck. And for once, the focus read my mind.
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2025-10-28 17:41:34 UTC

Managed to trick my lazy self into going out to shoot today. Ended up taking around 250 photos of an excavator until it looked halfway graceful.
Too far, too dark background, wrong angle - move, wait, click, click, click, repeat. Still, good fun. Even in the rain.
Bloody inner sloth!
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2025-10-27 14:03:37 UTC

The bird doesn’t disturb the silence. It defines it!
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2025-10-23 11:20:02 UTC

Notice the Roman ‘IIII’ on the clock. There are all sorts of theories about why it isn’t ‘IV’. My favorite one is the symmetry theory: four times with ‘I’s, four with ‘V’s, four with ‘X’s. And the heavy left side gets nicely balanced by that ‘IIII’. Makes sense. Clock faces are art, after all.
I’ve always preferred analog clocks. My brain reads them faster, more geometry, less math. Digital ones make me think, which somehow feels wrong for checking the time.
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2025-10-22 12:40:46 UTC

Airport II
Yesterday, while bored and waiting for boarding, I looked out the window and instantly thought of Andreas Gursky’s "Rhein II". Once the world’s most expensive photo for over a decade. Mine may look minimalist, but "Rhein II" is minimalism on steroids. To get anywhere close, I’d have to erase the car, all the signs, markings, and even the cracks in the concrete. But no, I’ll stick with my beautiful chaos. 🙂
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2025-10-10 10:47:43 UTC

Happy #FensterFreitag, Fediverse! 👋
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2025-10-08 15:52:47 UTC

Almost 45°!
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2025-09-28 07:17:49 UTC

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2025-09-27 18:31:08 UTC

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2025-09-25 15:20:59 UTC

Somewhere in Canada, 20 years ago.
I shot at f/22, thinking it would make everything "perfectly sharp". Instead I got motion blur, diffraction blur, and a whole constellation of dust spots to clean. Thanks, past me - clearly you believed that more is more. 🤨
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2025-09-24 17:53:46 UTC

In the first edit, there were still crisp clouds in the background. I thought the picture was good and done. I just wanted to quickly raise the exposure to see what more of the bridge would show - and the clouds disappeared, leaving me with the real image. Reduced to the essentials: the rhythm, the rhyme.
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2025-09-23 15:05:31 UTC

The longer I look at the clouds, the more my brain insists on seeing a winged figure.
What do you see? Well, now you’re primed, and you won’t see anything else anymore. 😛 Or will you?
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2025-09-22 14:21:10 UTC

By the shore, Egyptian geese were preening, their eyes fixed on me. Yet they held no interest: my gaze settled instead on the still water and the lone feather drifting upon it.
Later I wished the composition had carried more tension: perhaps a ripple or two, a glimpse of the bank, or a lower angle to catch the reflection of clouds.
Next time.
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2025-09-21 04:27:26 UTC

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2025-09-19 14:57:22 UTC

Happy #FensterFreitag, Fediverse! 👋
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2025-09-17 13:41:15 UTC

My first #MeerMitwoch photo.
Even though the sea itself isn’t visible, I can promise you it's only a wave away.
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2025-09-16 15:24:50 UTC

My first visit to Scotland was over 20 years ago. I had a small Casio Exilim with me and also a Canon film SLR - my last film camera.
Back then I was less ambitious than today, knew nothing about composition, light, or contrast. I photographed whatever I found interesting or beautiful. In a way, it was a freer, even liberated approach to photography. No concerns about whether something was sticking into the frame, whether the composition felt balanced, or whether too much clutter was obscuring the essential.
Today, it almost feels like a curse. I can’t help but imagine every scene as a finished picture, asking myself whether it works, or whether something could be made of it in post-processing. That becomes especially clear when I’m on vacation and, instead of holiday snapshots, I come home with heaps of "art". 🤪
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2025-09-13 11:55:01 UTC

The moon is much faster!
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2025-09-12 12:18:33 UTC

Happy #FensterFreitag, Fediverse! 👋
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2025-09-09 13:56:43 UTC

Oddness
If you think the picture looks odd, that’s because it really is. The photo is practically impossible. The building itself is made entirely of right angles. And since I’m standing to the left of it, there should be no true right angles in the image at all. Yet by rotating along all three axes of space, and by stretching or compressing, the scene can be adjusted into the “right” perspective.
Still, even without bending reality, it looks odd.
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2025-09-07 06:48:08 UTC

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2025-09-05 16:24:30 UTC

I saw hill, field, and tree and had to photograph it.
Just outside the frame on the left there’s a bush I didn’t want to include, so the tree had to sit far to the left unless I zoomed in more. Right behind the hill the forest begins, so I positioned myself low enough to keep the treetops out, but not too low, or the tree itself would have been cut off. Since the hill slopes, I wandered through the field for minutes, searching for the right spot.
At first, the photo was in color: green field, blue sky, small white clouds, and the dark tree. Pleasant enough, and it reminded me a little of the XP desktop background. Ten days later I tried it in black and white, darkening top and bottom to draw the eye to the horizon with the tree. Something you can hardly pull off convincingly in color. On the right I opened the crop, which pushed the tree further left, away from the rule of thirds. That rule doesn’t matter much to me anyway, though I sometimes glance at it. Mostly, I just go by instinct. After all, I’m not an AI.
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2025-09-02 17:42:41 UTC

Soon their journey begins again.
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2025-08-31 09:28:52 UTC

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2025-08-28 18:12:26 UTC

Almost nothing to see.
If you look a little longer, the tree becomes clear. Or maybe it’s just my imagination running away with me. Try it yourself.
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2025-08-26 18:14:06 UTC

It hasn’t rained here for weeks. This image is meant as a subtle inspiration for all the weather gods of all peoples.
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2025-08-25 14:52:12 UTC

If light and shadow are all you need, you can stop here.
Who really knows what lies beyond the frame of an image? Here there is no real clue and why should there be? Light and shadow were all that drew me in at that moment. Only after capturing the scene did I notice the mattresses and sleeping bags hidden in the shade of the arcade. At first it was just a play of light for you, but now you, too, know what sad reality remained outside and unseen in the shadows.
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2025-08-24 12:26:42 UTC

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2025-08-23 11:21:21 UTC

I edit photos almost every day. Some I keep coming back to - changing a detail here, making a copy there, and taking it in an entirely new direction. A picture is never really finished. Even after I publish it, I often get new ideas for different crops or shifts in emphasis that can completely change the mood.
With this one, though, I didn’t spend long polishing. I’d had my eye on it for a while and even edited it once before. But this morning something clicked, and I knew exactly where I wanted to take it this time. Next week, I might want to take it somewhere else again.
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2025-08-20 14:49:47 UTC

Solitude
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2025-08-14 17:18:08 UTC

Happy #FensterFreitag, Fediverse! 👋
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2025-08-11 17:17:18 UTC

Ninety-nine times I saw nothing. The hundredth, I saw the picture. I kept what spoke to me and let the rest disappear.
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2025-08-10 11:50:20 UTC

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2025-08-09 14:25:46 UTC

It still thinks it’s on patrol.
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2025-08-08 15:29:40 UTC

Happy #FensterFreitag, Fediverse! 👋
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2025-08-08 14:48:45 UTC

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Beautifully seen and brilliantly presented. 😀

2025-08-07 12:41:51 UTC

Lily in the dark
Among billions of flower photos taken every year, this one is not rare. And still, this one exists. Just this one. Just like this.
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2025-08-06 18:10:12 UTC

Minimal setup: one hill, one person, one bird. And for good measure, a pyramid.
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2025-08-05 18:40:24 UTC

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Whenever I see double rainbows, I think of Paul Vasquez, who passed away in 2020, but still “uploads” videos on his YouTube channel, since he had scheduled them for 15 years in advance.

2025-08-05 18:11:45 UTC

She sees me. I see her. And now, you see her too.
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2025-08-05 17:48:02 UTC

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On the left, I see a tall figure standing with their face hidden in the shadows. On the right, in the brown patch, I see someone turning their head away from the viewer, holding up their hand as if to shield it.

2025-08-04 18:17:58 UTC

I think I’m developing a serious puddle habit. Every time I spot one, I circle it like a detective, crouch down, change angles, and stare into it like it's holding secrets. But just finding a puddle isn’t enough, it also needs something worth reflecting. And the bigger the subject, the bigger the puddle needs to be. Like this one.
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2025-08-03 11:48:01 UTC

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2025-08-02 10:13:18 UTC

Fade to grey and back again
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2025-08-01 14:56:04 UTC

Young icebergs
I struggled for a long time deciding whether to crop this image immediately to 16:9 or even 2:1, allowing more space for the buttery-smooth, invitingly touchable, cold water. Also, the baby icebergs would feel less confined. But somehow, the 1:1 format simply feels more right to me.
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2025-07-30 14:42:40 UTC

Achtung!
Why do I mostly photograph minimalist scenes? Because at the beginning of my photographic journey, it’s still the easiest way to get good results. Simply keep everything that isn’t essential to the subject out of the frame.
Spot a detail, a pattern, texture, color, or contrast - zoom in, take the shot, done.
The next step, I suppose, would be to place the subject in a context that invites the viewer to linger, perhaps even to reflect. And that, I find genuinely hard. My mental focus tends to cling to the object itself. To then widen the gaze, perceive the context, and relate it meaningfully to the subject - that’s a real challenge.
But probably nothing that can’t be improved with practice, practice, practice.
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2025-07-30 13:34:07 UTC

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Und das Lamm ist mittlerweile erwachsen geworden. 🫣 Aber grün war die Wiese, ich schwör. 🙃

2025-07-29 18:22:22 UTC

Hurz!
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2025-07-27 12:47:58 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2025-07-25 18:31:33 UTC

I’m drawn to reflections on gently rippling water. A mirrored reality, not unlike our own experience of it. Fleeting impressions, subtle distortions, moments emphasized or erased, all in constant flux. Anyway, I like the photo. ☺️
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2025-07-25 15:13:24 UTC

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Richtig cool! 😃

2025-07-25 11:59:48 UTC

Happy #FensterFreitag, Fediverse! 👋
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2025-07-24 16:29:11 UTC

A swan glides on, like time itself, into the unknown, leaving only gentle ripples behind.
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2025-07-23 11:15:13 UTC

Where sound begins before it’s heard.
As usual, one of the last shots at the location, more of a snap than a result of mindful observation and composition. This happens to me so often that I’m tempted to just stop ‘seeing’ altogether and start shooting wildly in all directions. Something usable will turn up, right?
No, definitely not. Even if it did, it wouldn’t be fun.
Engaging consciously with a scene is at least half the joy, at least for me. Even if most of it leads to nothing useful. Which, as always, depends entirely on the eye of the beholder.
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2025-07-22 11:45:11 UTC

Sand, Wind und Licht. Meer braucht's nicht.
Sand, wind, and light. No need for more - or the sea (A pun that's lost in translation).
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2025-07-21 13:12:02 UTC

Boat No. 2!
Or is it 16? Or perhaps it says “Io”, the mythical lover of Zeus, now a moon orbiting Jupiter. Truth and false, yin and yang… Maybe it’s short for “Lo and behold” or someone simply forgot to add “VE.” Let’s go with that, steelmanning the mystery.
Whatever the case, the symbol stays the same, even when reflected in water.
A seemingly trivial fact, yet somehow oddly satisfying. The colors flip their order, but the symbol holds its ground.
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2025-07-20 11:56:43 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2025-07-06 10:37:15 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2025-07-06 09:45:06 UTC

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I've got my color-filter glasses on again. 🥸 Might post another photo later today, but after that I'll be off hunting for new subjects and some relaxation over the next few weeks. After that, we can go hunting together again. It's your turn to pick the location. 😛

2025-07-05 10:42:04 UTC

The weekend called for color, just a little to ease into it. So here’s some green, a dash of white, and a whisper of yellow. Let’s not overwhelm our retinas all at once.
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2025-07-04 15:16:39 UTC

Mr. Darcy’s Pemberley from the best adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice", according to my wife. And to be fair, she’s probably right. In reality, of course, it’s the stately home at Lyme Park. Whenever we have some time to spare before a flight from Manchester, we like to take a walk there.
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2025-07-02 12:08:24 UTC

The temperature keeps climbing and climbing and ...
Right now, we’re just passing 38°C (311K, 100°F) here, and that likely won’t be today’s peak. Just 5 kilometers "down the road" and you’d better bring a sweater… and maybe an oxygen tank while you're at it. It’s kind of wild how thin our atmosphere really is. So precious, so worth protecting.
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2025-07-01 19:17:19 UTC

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I’ve been checking the thermometer almost every minute. In just a few more, we’ll hit the equilibrium point when it’s 28°C both inside and out. Then I can finally open everything up to let the air in. 😵‍💫

2025-07-01 12:32:47 UTC

Strandhütte
I initially processed it in black and white, since everything was already shades of grey anyway. The result reminded me of a painting, so I decided to enhance that impression by introducing just two tones.
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2025-06-30 16:39:51 UTC

Hanging by a silken thread.
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2025-06-29 12:40:31 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2025-06-28 17:20:27 UTC

Trees make patient subjects.
Especially when they stand alone. It’s then that one can see them as individuals - shaped by time, full of character. In forests, I struggle. I lose the tree in the crowd of trees. And it’s the same with people. When they gather in numbers, I lose sight of the human among all the humans.
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2025-06-27 14:03:53 UTC

Berry Season Bliss
For the past two months, I’ve been eating two bowls like this every day. At first, it was just strawberries, then blueberries joined in, and later raspberries too. All the fruit comes from a local farmer in my area. It’s a glorious time of year - sweet, juicy, and gone far too soon. I wish berry season could last forever. But the end is near... and then it’s back to the long, cold, berry-less months of waiting. At least I’ve got one more kilo in the fridge. For now. ☺️
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2025-06-27 12:14:30 UTC

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I know that you know that I have to like this. 😄

2025-06-26 17:37:19 UTC

The 9·10⁹+1st cat photo!
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2025-06-25 15:09:25 UTC

Sometimes I find myself walking the same paths, literally and creatively. This isn’t the same scene. Not the same trees, not the same place. But it looks remarkably similar to an image I posted just over two weeks ago.
Creativity doesn’t always mean breaking new ground. Sometimes it’s circling back, revisiting, refining. Sometimes it’s about finding comfort in repetition, noticing how subtle changes - in light, mood, or me - can make the familiar feel different.
So here I am, again. Similar light, similar darkness, similar pull. But not the same. Never quite the same.
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2025-06-25 11:54:27 UTC

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Thank you, Harald! ☺️ Maybe some images mature on their own, and some need time with us.